"Corners" lyrics - GIL SCOTT-HERON

Turning of the decade
Like a giant wheel in time
Stands out on life's highway
Like an advertising sign.

Turning of the decade
Like a marker hung in space
A man made definition
Like the bending of a page.

And if we see where we've been
Somehow more clearly than before;
And if we see where we're going somehow
Like the opening of a door:

They're not there to stop your flowing
To somehow freeze you in the past;
Sign posts are meant to shape your growing
There's nothing there to hold you back.

Turning of the decade
Is meant to separate;
Ten years left to history
And ten years left to fate.

Turning of the decade
Like Corners in your life
That turn only to the future
Instead of left or right.

And if we see where we've been
Somehow more clearly than before;
And if we see where we're going somehow
Like the opening of a door.

They're not there to stop your flowing
To somehow freeze you in the past;
Sign posts are meant to shape your growing
There's nothing there to hold you back.

Nothing there to hold you back
Nothing there to hold you back
There ain't nothing there to hold you back
There ain't nothing there to hold you back
Hold you back
Hold you back
There nothing there to hold you back
There ain't nothing there to hold you back
There ain't nothing there to hold you back!